John Laub, Scenic Painter Of Landscapes In The Northeast, 57

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John Laub, a New York-based landscape painter, died on March 3, 2005,
at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, New York, the cause of death
being leukemia, said his partner, Bruce C. Kingsley, at the age of 57.

Mr. Laub painted scenic views in places like Fire Island, Woodstock,
Martha's Vineyard and Mount Desert Island, Me. He would begin painting
at the site and finish in the studio, referring to drawings and
photographs. The combinations of vivid color, emphatic brushwork and
realistic observation that he produced call to mind paintings by
contemporary realists like Neil Welliver and Janet Fish.

John Frederick Laub was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Decemver
30, 1947. He studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, the
School of Visual Arts in New York and the Philadelphia College of Art,
from which he received a degree in graphic design.

Upon graduation, a teacher advised him to abandon design and become a
painter. He had his first solo exhibition at the Philadelphia Art
Alliance in 1975 and his first solo show in New York, where he moved in
1984, at the Helio Gallery in 1991. He had three exhibitions at
Fischbach Gallery, now in Chelsea, the last in 2003.

Mr. Laub, who learned he had H.I.V. in 1989, was a longtime AIDS
activist. For five years he was a supervisor of the AIDS hot line of
the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

Mr. Laub is survived by Mr. Kingsley; his mother and stepfather,
Lorraine and Ben Alexander, of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania; his
father, Richard Laub,of West Palm Beach, Florida; his brother, Michael
Laub, of Gladwyne, Pennsylvana; and his sisters, Kathleen Laub, of
Delray Beach, Florida, and Patricia Tieger, of Tivoli, New York.

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